Hunter Biden-linked Ukrainian company used for terror attacks in Russia - Moscow

RT
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:36 UTC

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Multiple entities, including Burisma Holdings, have been involved in funding terrorism, Russian investigators are claiming...

Criminal probes into the financing of terrorist activities in Russia and abroad have been launched against several private companies, the country's Investigative Committee announced on Tuesday. The list of suspects includes the Ukrainian industrial conglomerate Burisma Holdings, linked to a corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family that has been dragging on for years.

The criminal investigation stems from a complaint filed by a group of Russian MPs and public figures in the aftermath of the deadly Crocus City Hall attack outside Moscow last month. The original complaint identified the US and its allies as allegedly organizing a string of attacks on Russian soil.

Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said:

"So far, investigators have established that the funds, flowing through commercial organizations, including the oil and gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine, have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia. Terrorist activities have also reached beyond the country, aimed at the elimination of prominent political and public figures, as well as causing economic damage.

"Committee's specialists have been working in cooperation with other intelligence services and financial intelligence, checking sources of income and further movement of funds in the amount of several million US dollars, and examining the potential involvement of 'specific individuals' from among government officials, people with civic and commercial organizations of Western countries."

Burisma is probably best known internationally for its controversial ties to the current first family in the US. In the spring of 2014, following the US-backed coup in Kiev, the Ukrainian energy firm hired Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer on its board of directors, offering $1 million a year in pay. Biden's father Joe was President Barack Obama's vice president at the time, and oversaw Washington's Ukraine policy. He once famously bragged about getting a corruption prosecutor fired - which just happened to occur after that prosecutor began investigating Burisma.

Nikolay Zlochevsky's company also offered protection payments to the government in Kiev, according to former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach. Zlochevsky paid some "800 million hryvnias [over $21 million] for terrorism financing" in "various jurisdictions," Derkach claimed in January. He said at the time:

"The leaders of Ukraine's security services make no secret of the fact that they carry out terrorist acts and political assassinations for extra-budgetary cash. Once again: Biden's partners in the corruption business in Ukraine finance terrorist acts, thus avoiding responsibility for corruption in Ukraine."

Derkach claimed it was common practice for the owners of large businesses in Ukraine to 'donate' to the war effort in exchange for immunity from prosecution. He pointed to a criminal case against Zlochevsky relating to a $6 million cash bribe that ended with the Burisma owner paying a $1,800 fine.

Comment: The Bidens cannot remain untouchable forever...or can they?

Update: More from the same source:

9 Apr, 2024 22:51
Ukrainian Burisma company 'vehicle to launder taxpayer money' - lawyer to RT

The oil and gas firm was named by the Russian Investigative Committee among organizations potentially used to finance terrorism

The Russian Investigative Committee on Tuesday said it launched a criminal probe into the financing of terrorism, naming the Ukrainian industrial conglomerate Burisma among the suspects.

RT spoke about the unfolding scandal to Arnaud Develay, an international human rights advocate and the author of a book covering ties between the Ukrainian company and the family of US President Joe Biden.

"This is something that the Russian Investigative Committee is going to have to determine to be sure, but this is nothing new," Develay stated, describing the Ukrainian company as a "vehicle to launder taxpayers' money."

The investigators have already "established that the funds, flowing through commercial organizations, including the oil and gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine, have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia" and beyond.

Should the allegation prove to be true, the West will try its best to swipe the whole affair under the rug, as well as to derail any attempts to bring it before international bodies, Develay believes.

"They would try to fight tooth and nail to basically deny it," he said, adding that an attempt to establish a UN-backed tribunal to handle the affair is bound to get vetoed by the "Big Three" - the US, the UK and France.

"This is something that is going to have to be handled a different way," he warned.

Develay's work, titled 'Foreign Entanglements: Ukraine, Biden & the Fractured American Political Consensus' [Amazon link inserted.] is set for public release on Wednesday.